Italian January 9th 2008 n. 2 Act, published in “Gazzetta Ufficiale” on the last January 25th, introduced new provisions regarding the S.I.A.E. (the Italian agency for authors and recording industry, just like BPI in UK and RIAA in USA) and modified section 70 of Italian Copyright Act, extending the fair use limits for copyrighted material. […]
It’s very briefly what the European Court of Justice ruled in the case C-406/10 of May 2 2012 (below the link to download the full text), with which it was clarified that are not protected by copyright law, in accordance with EU Directive 91/250 (now EU Directive 2009/24), the functionality of a software, nor the
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As known, the recent amendement of Italian Law Decree 168/2003, that established the “Specialised Sections for IP Law”, has expanded the competences of these Sections also over Company Law (included LLC) and changed their name into “Specialized Sections for Business Law”. From the initial12 venues we now have 19 (one for each Court established in each Regional
Today Microsoft has been fined €561.000.000,00 by EU Commission for failing to comply with its commitments, signed in 2009 and legally binding until 2014, to offer users a browser choice screen enabling them to easily choose their preferred web browser. The ruling is related to Windows 7 Service Pack 1, where from May 2011 until
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